Marcus loewenthal



M. LoEwENTHAL.

PICTURE FRAME. APPLlcATIopl FILED ocT. 5', (bis.

l y TTH/VEYS MARCUS LOEWENTHAL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 191.9.

Application filed ctober 5, 1916. Serial No. 123,868.

To all fte/wm t may concern Be it known that I, MARCUS LonwE-NTHAL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Picture-F rame, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved picture frame having means for securely fastening the members of the frame in cooperative relation.

The invention consists of various parts and details as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

A practica] embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l is a sectional rear face view of a corner of the frame; and

Fig. 2 is a similar View of a modified form of the same.

The frame when constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of side members each of which is provided with a face flange 25 and an edge flange 26. These flanges are formed in perpendiciilar arrangement each to the other. The face flanges 25 are cut to form initered corners, and corners plates 32 are used for uniting the frame sections. Each corner plate 32 corresponds in width with the face flanges 25 and extends over the joint formed by the meeting edges of the face flanges 25. As shown in Fig. 2, the corner plate 32 is provided with extended tabs 33 to receive which the standing flanges 26 are pierced close to the junction angle of the flanges 25 and 26. In Fig. 2, the corner plate 32 is provided with a duplicate set of y Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. C.

tabs 83. Those adjacent the corner of the plate are disposed so as to register with perforations correspondingly located in the flanges 26. The outer ends of the tabs 33 are bent over on to the outer face of the flanges 26 to hold the frame sections securely in assembled relation. It will be noticed that the tabs are arranged to resist the strain exerted in opposite directions thereby rendering the frame rigid and the members permanent in their joined condition.

laims:

l. A picture frame comprising a plurality of frame sections, each section having a face flange and a side edge flange integrally connected and perpendicularly disposed, the face flanges of said frame sections being cut to form mitered corners, a plurality of co1'- ner plates for uniting said frame sections, said corner plates corresponding in width with said face flanges and adapted for resting over the joint formed by the meeting edges thereof, and means for structurally connecting said corner plates and frame sections, said means embodying slots formed in said edge flanges and tabs corresponding therewith for engagement thereof, said tabs being formed on said corner plates.

2. A picture frame .comprising a plurality of frame sections, each of said sections having a face flange and a side edge flange, said face flanges being cut to form corner miters of said completed frame, means for fastening said frame sections to form a completed frame, said means embodying a corner plate, said corner plate corresponding in width to the face flanges and adapted to overlie the joint forming the meeting Corner edges thereof; and means for rigidly connecting said corner sections and corner plates, said means embodying a series of coperating tabs and slots therefor.

MARCUS LOEWENTHAL.

Commissioner of Patents, 

